Summer and the City audiobook

As I've said in my review for the Carrie Diaries I love this series. It is what "Sex and the City" should have been instead of that horrible book of mini interviews...But anyway, Carrie is out of school, and is now in NYC. Carrie is Carrie again, she just doesn't fit in well anywhere else in my opinion. She goes through a lot of crazy antics in this book, and it's fun to watch her grow up, and become the lady we love.At the end of this book I was so excited to see that she is going to be meeting another one of the SATC ladies, probably in the third book.

This book was surprisingly pretty good! It had a few dull moments but overall I enjoyed it, mostly for the girly dating chit chats lol - It kinda has the feeling of the book Can you Keep a Secret.- Lots of around the city descriptions, especially in the beginning- Very jumpy, one place to another place to another place, not deep at all, skins over things- Carrie inspires me that I should write something. And Bushnell inspires me to write a book similar to this, but better- I like how Carrie goes around to the little shops and gets thrifty outfits lol her carpenter belt- I love the group of the girls Miranda Carrie and Samantha. Where was Charlotte though? I guess she's a later on character. I love their chit chat amongst the girls. Miranda is so blunt and logical, Samantha is a bit ditsy but sexy, and Carrie is pretty self absorbed but she’s so friendly- It was very very similar feel to sex and the city tv show. I'm on vacation in Mexico right now but when I get home I’m going to rewatch all of it _

Another good summer read; I'm about halfway through this one. The plot brings Carrie to NYC and brings Carrie, Samantha, and Miranda (so far) together. I assume Charlotte will make an appearance eventually.I finished this yesterday. I was right; Charlotte did make an appearance. Again, if you liked the tv show, you'll enjoy these books. Good, entertaining, mindless summer reads.

The second book in Bushnell's Sex and the City prequel series is a vast improvement over the unremarkable first, The Carrie Diaries, thanks to its addition of some familiar faces and SATC's "Fifth Lady," New York City. And while fans of the show might be confused or disappointed that the books don't strictly follow the show's lore, it still manages to capture the energy and sentiments of the show enough that readers should enjoy this "alternate universe" Carrie and her navigation of dating, friendship and the Big Apple.Following where the first left off, Carrie is now in New York City for the summer, enrolled in a writing class, before she's to head to Brown in the fall. Living in the apartment of an engaged(!) Samantha Jones and befriending feminist Miranda Hobbes, Carrie discovers the city and herself as she tries to make an imprint on New York's social scene.Creators of the show have said that Carrie ceased to exist before coming to New York, which made the first book so jarring and, ultimately, pointless. The show rarely went into Carrie's backstory, never introducing us to relatives or hometown friends, and only venturing into her past through what she chose to share. Carrie needs New York because it's her heart and soul, making anything that happened before moot. It's her true birthplace and shaped her into who she is, and this book benefits tremendously from the union of Carrie and New York.Bushnell is great at describing the city and the experience one can have as they're introduced to all its many facets. And coming from someone who currently lives in New York, the details Bushnell throws in of a 1980s NYC are a fun peek into the city's grittier history. It's a crazy city, and Bushnell understands this, but she also understands the exhilaration of coexisting with the often odd characters and scenes you encounter. Like her column that started the SATC pop culture phenom, these prequels seem autobiographical (this Carrie is from Connecticut and moved to New York at 17; Bushnell is from Connecticut and moved to the city at 19). And while the first book had a somewhat sour taste because of Carrie and Bushnell's condescension of smalltown Connecticut (Why bother with this portion of Carrie's life if she's just gonna drop it and leave it in the dust?), this second one really is a joy to read thanks to the fond memories the author weaves from her journey into Carrie's.

Bushnellin kirjoja on vaan niin helppo lukea. Luen samaan aikaan Jane Austenia, ja kyllä tällaisen "helpomman" kirjan lukeminen virkistää. Luin pari sivua joskus vuonna 2016 ja vasta nyt sain kirjan ahmittua loppuun, mutta ahmimalla se loppu sitten menikin.Se on hassua, miten jokaiseen kirjan hahmoon pystyy samaistumaan omalla tavallaan. Kaikissa meissä on pieni pala Samanthaa, Carrieta, Mirandaa ja Charlottea. Plus tykkään tästä 80's -vibasta ihan mielettömästi!

OMG you finally know how the girls met. Honestly though Samantha Jones wants to be married???? Someone pinch me. But I guess if you get torched good enough you never want a repeat. I didn't even kow sex and the city was a book I have to get that one next but hey its amazing to read books that have influenced a whole generation of women. I love Charlotte's innocence, I love Carrie's writing, I love Miranda's brain, but I really love Samantha's guts. Now you know in what order they met and how they have changed. read read read need to for sure. However I am interested to see if she will write another so that we can see the characters take on their final personalities. I mean one bad break ruins Samantha's want to marry gene. Charlotte is really the only character that is still true to themselves. I never thought of Carrie as big headed until this book however I do believe that perhaps we are all a bit big headed at least once in our lives. Miranda a protester, becomes a lawyer and she dies her hair red? It is a bit difficult to picture the characters as themselves but I am looking at the book as a book and not comparing it to the movies/tv shows.

Superb! Love the ending 💛 I wish there were more.

If you are looking for a fun, entertaining and lighthearted book to read this summer you need to pick up Summer and the City. This novel continues where the Carrie Diaries left us, as Carrie Bradshaw begins her relationship with NYC. Being a long-time lover of Bushnell's original Sex and the City book and a fan of the show, it was interesting to learn how the character of Carrie developed into the phenomena that we know and love. In fact, one of the most satisfying components of this novel is the development of Carrie's relationship with Samantha and Miranda. Bushnell constantly weaves components of the show into this novel, for example the character of Capote Duncan, to provide reference points that viewers of the show can identify with. Fans of the show will not be disappointed with this prequel to the part of the story that they are already familiar with.However, even those who are unfamiliar with the show will easily follow and identify with the characters and the story. Summer and the City is, in many ways, a coming of age story. Carrie is trying to identify who she is and who she wants to become while uncovering the New York City landscape. There are a number of new characters introduced in this novel that add interesting complications to Carrie's life, as well as some old friends from the first book that she now finds trouble connecting with.Overall, I would highly recommend this book!

I love the 'Sex in the City' series, so I enjoy reading the books the author is now writing.I love the characters, and they are well developed. The story flows quickly, and is easy to read.It is also entertaining.The book, like the series, finds its strength from dealing with human drama. The problems the girls face are problems we all face, one way or another. The City treats them like it treats us all, and that reality and universality is what keeps the plot and the book going. We care for the characters because they bear a little bit of ourselves. Also, because they are well written. I highly recommend this book. The only thing I did not enjoy in this book was that sometimes Carrie is not the nicest person. She acted very nasty towards her family and her Dad. She wanted them to gush over her, but she wasn't willing to pay attention to their needs. At times, in the book, she acts that way towards a few people. She acts as if her life back in her hometown wasn't any good, when it's that life and that family what made her. She wasn't born in NYC, a fact I wish she would be kind about. But, I guess Carrie can't be perfect. She has to have some flaws. However, I kept expecting her to "soften her heart" a bit about her Dad and her hometown. Other than that, I am glad I read this!

I liked this book very much. I have read it in 4 days during my weekend trip and I can tell you.. I couldn't stop reading!I love that it's set in the 80's, i love that it continues just where it ended in The Carrie Diaries 1. I love that you get to know how Carrie met Miranda and some other people :) (i don't want to spoil anything!)Oh, and i like the end of the book! :)What I didn't like that much was the fact that Carrie behaves in a way that is totally uncommon for her in the series. She seems totally insecure but then she tries to act super confident about herself and has an ego which is way too big and makes her "fight" with people. Tell me what you think of this fact, please.I think this book is a big gift to all the SATC fans who wanted to know more about the characters of the series. You get to know them way better and it's just amazing. There's parts where Samantha talks that I laughed out loud !It is a fantastic and quick read because it is easily written. To me it was as if I was watching a movie while I read it because I could totally imagine the places described by Candace Bushnell. Awesome!

Maybe I'm biased since I read this on a bus tour to and from New York city, but this was a great book! I loved it. It's the second novel of the series about Carrie Bradshaw before SATC; when she was 18. The first book was a bit disappointing. She was still in high school and no mention of anything from the show was in the book. The plot was also very teenager oriented. I wasn't even sure I was going to read the 2nd, but I'm glad that I did. In this one we have Samantha and Miranda. As well as other minor characters. We start to see how Carrie got to be a writer and how her "sex and the city" subject got introduced and the plot was more mature. The fact that I was just in New York also made the book more interesting. The mention of places where I had been just a few hours ago was really cool. (I loved New York city!). Every Sex and the City fan needs to read this series. Get through the first one because this one is worth it. I'm hoping there will be more.

There are some mixed feelings about this book but I came to the conclusion that I still had a lot of fun reading it. Carrie is insufferable in many ways, especially when she keeps running to phone booths and/or other people's phones to try to find a man who isn't worth her time (or when she is so self-centered it was getting on my nerves). But this is what Sex and the City is all about, after all, and it's what made me read the book at the end of so many years of enjoying the series. After reading Carrie's Diaries, finally, the plot is set in NYC and we meet some of the characters that made the series so good. It's funny to see the development of Carrie's friendship and growth into the character I met so many years ago, as well as her bizarre taste in clothes. It was interesting to see how problems from the 80's are still ones we experience on a daily basis, whether that is in NYC or not, especially when we are women and society puts pressure on us to be something we don't want to be, models of perfection. Also, the divide that exists between the career we want to pursue and what our family expects of us, is also still an issue that deserves attention and deserves to be addressed. The writing is entertaining. It's different from most books I read and was immensely worth my time.

So good. Easy read. I love the idea of a young hot Carrie Bradshaw. This book makes me wanna chain smoke cigarettes in my room. If you’re a sex and the city fan you definitely need to read these books.